MediaCultureLinguistic Perspectives on Social TV: Questions and Desiderata of Analysing TV-Appropriation in Social Media

Abstract

In the following article it shall be outlined that Social TV, i.e. the spontaneous TV-accompanied communication in social media, can be considered a promising area of MediaCultureLinguistics (MCL) as the study of media linguistic phenomena from an interdisciplinary point of view. The main aim is, then, to sketch out this new research area.

The Authors

Michael Klemm is professor for media studies on the institute of Kulturwissenschaft of the university Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz. Studying German philology, political science and media communication on university of Trier, 1998 Doctorate on the TU Chemnitz with the dissertation on „Zuschauerkommunikation“. Recent research and publication areas: Social Media (in political communication), analysis of multimodality / cultures of audiovisuality, international and transcultural media culture(s), media appropriation.